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EXHIBIT 34.1
ATTESTATION REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH
SERVICING CRITERIA FOR ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the members and Board of Directors
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
Jefferson, Louisiana
We have examined management of Entergy Louisiana LLC's assertion, included in the accompanying Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria For Asset-Backed Securities, that Entergy Louisiana, LLC (the "Company") complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation AB applicable for Entergy Louisiana Investment Recovery Funding I, L.L.C.’s Senior Secured Investment Recovery Bonds (the “Securities”), excluding criteria in Items 1122(d)(1)(ii), 1122(d)(1)(iii), 1122(d)(1)(iv), 1122(d)(2)(iii), 1122(d)(2)(vi), 1122(d)(4)(iii), 1122(d)(4)(v), 1122(d)(4)(ix), 1122(d)(4)(x), 1122(d)(4)(xi), 1122(d)(4)(xii), 1122(d)(4)(xiii), and 1122(d)(4)(xv) (the “servicing criteria”), as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, which management has determined are not applicable to the activities performed by the Company with respect to the Securities. Management is responsible for the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria and its assertions. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management's assertion about the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), and in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Those standards require that we plan and perform the examination to obtain reasonable assurance about whether management’s assertion about compliance with the servicing criteria is fairly stated, in all material respects, and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria, including tests on a sample basis of the servicing activities related to the Securities, determining whether the Company performed those selected activities in compliance with the servicing criteria during the specified period, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our procedures were limited to selected servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report and, accordingly, such samples may not have included servicing activities related to each asset-backed transaction included in the Securities. Further, an examination is not designed to detect noncompliance arising from errors that may have occurred prior to the period specified above that may have affected the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report. We believe that the evidence we obtained in our examination is sufficient and appropriate to provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria.
In our opinion, management's assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned servicing criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 for Entergy Louisiana
Investment Recovery Funding I, L.L.C.’s Senior Secured Investment Recovery Bonds is fairly stated, in all material respects.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 29, 2021